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Engineering college building inaugurated

Staff Reporter

A milestone in its seven-year history

NEW FACILITY: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan inaugurating the building of the Government Engineering college , Kozhikode, on Monday. — Photo: S. Ramesh Kurup

Kozhikode: Reaching a milestone in its seven-year history, the Government Engineering College here has been shifted to its own buildings at West Hill on Monday.

Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan inaugurated the new block of the college. Students, teachers, parents, Revenue officials, MLAs and local people attended the inaugural function.

Kozhikode MLA A. Pradeepkumar presided over the function. Minister for Education M.A. Baby inaugurated the thermal engineering laboratory on the occasion.

Minister for Forests and Housing Benoy Viswom laid the foundation stone for the Chemical Engineering Block. Minister for Industries Elamaram Karim laid the stone for applied engineering and instrumentation block.

K. Sundaran, Superintending Engineer, Public Works Department, said the four-storey main block of the engineering college consisted of 14 class rooms, room for the principal, office room, conference hall, cooperative store, NCC room, Physical Education, Chemistry-Physics Laboratories, drawing halls, mess halls, waiting halls, lifts and toilets. The total cost of the project was Rs. 394.34 lakhs. The construction activities began on November 17, 2003.

The thermal engineering lab was constructed at the cost of Rs. 68.27 lakhs. The lab had facilities for instructors' room, lobby and porch. Construction of the lab began nine months ago, he said.

The three-storey chemical engineering block would be constructed at a cost of Rs. 140 lakhs. Proposals for heat transfer and mass transfer labs, seminar hall, library, classrooms, technology lab, materials technology lab and computer lab have been included in the project.

Similarly, the proposed three-storey electronics block would be constructed at a cost of Rs. 140 lakhs.

A process control lab, seminar hall, library, classrooms, digital electronics lab, micro process lab and computer lab will be constructed in the block in nine months time.

In her address, college Principal Z.A. Zoya said the college was one of the five Government Engineering Colleges given sanction in 1999. Ever since, it had been functioning in the hostel of the Government Polytechnic at West Hill.

She said the college had plans to set up a training institute attached to the Department for Applied Engineering, an environment pollution-monitoring cell at the Department of Chemical Engineering and a research unit for experimenting with bio-fuel at the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. Zoya also said that a multi-layer PCB manufacturing unit, a consultancy cell and a centre for eco-friendly technologies were some of the ambitious projects of the college.

She said that the college was also waiting for the approval of the All-India Council for Technical Education for the civil engineering course.

P.M.A. Salam, A.K. Saseendaran and P. Viswan, MLAs, offered felicitations. District Collector Rachna Shah; and National Institute of Technology Calicut, Director, G.R.C. Reddy, were present.

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